Jacques Herzog

Tate Modern, London's riverside art museum, has revised plans for the new wing that architects Herzog & de Meuron are building, and says the 2012 opening may be delayed because of tough fundraising conditions. At a news briefing Friday, Tate director Nicholas Serota and architect Jacques Herzog said the new building, designed in 2006 as a jagged cast-glass pile, will now be a brick polygon growing out of, and resembling, the existing Tate. They denied that budget reasons were behind the change.

Tate Modern, London's riverside art museum, has revised plans for the new wing that architects Herzog & de Meuron are building, and says the 2012 opening may be delayed because of tough fundraising conditions. At a news briefing Friday, Tate director Nicholas Serota and architect Jacques Herzog said the new building, designed in 2006 as a jagged cast-glass pile, will now be a brick polygon growing out of, and resembling, the existing Tate. They denied that budget reasons were behind the change.

Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, the architects of the celebrated Tate Gallery of Modern Art in London, have won the 2001 Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honor. Based in Basel, Switzerland, the team has recently landed a string of high-profile commissions, including London's Laban Dance Theatre, the expansion of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the De Young Museum in San Francisco, scheduled for completion in 2004.

Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, the architects of the celebrated Tate Gallery of Modern Art in London, have won the 2001 Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honor. Based in Basel, Switzerland, the team has recently landed a string of high-profile commissions, including London's Laban Dance Theatre, the expansion of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the De Young Museum in San Francisco, scheduled for completion in 2004.

The mayor of Hamburg, Germany, laid the foundation stone Monday for the new Elbe Philharmonic concert hall, a spectacular glass-fronted structure that will tower over the city's harbor. Based on plans by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron -- who transformed a disused power station into London's Tate Modern art museum -- the $322-million building should be completed in 2010.

Ellen Stewart, founder of New York's La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, was among the five winners announced Thursday for the 2007 Praemium Imperiale arts awards for lifetime achievements. The other winners were Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim, French artist Daniel Buren, British sculptor Tony Cragg and the Swiss architectural team of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. Given annually by the Japan Art Assn.

Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron Architects It might seem absurd to give the "Faces to watch" label to a pair of 54-year-old architects whose Switzerland-based firm is one of the best-regarded in the world. But 2005 will be a debut year of sorts for them in the United States, where their only public work until now has been the Dominus winery in Napa Valley. In April, Herzog & de Meuron's extension to the Walker Art Center will open in Minneapolis.

October 2, 2005 | Michael Webb, Excerpted from "Adventurous Wine Architecture" by Michael Webb, published this month by Images Publishing.

The popular image of the winery remains the picturesque European chateau, but a growing number of winemakers around the world are seeking a fresh approach. Architects are being challenged to rethink the winery as a bold contemporary expression of tradition and innovation, agriculture and technology, production and hospitality.

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